About SPIRITUS
David Moore
Recommendation
'David holds space with a gentle steadiness that invites the soul’s unfolding. His gift lies not in filling silence, but in honouring it — creating a depth of stillness that invites honesty without pressure. In his presence, something within me is able to surface and be seen, not hurried or fixed, simply witnessed. I always leave with a greater sense of ease and peace.'
'SPIRITUS helped me to rediscover and address my own spirituality - to see how this empowers me in my professional and personal life.'
Ways of Working
David tailors the approach according to each client's needs and circumstances.
Ways of working include:
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SPIRITED Conversation
Our inner voice is a guiding light, our compass and strength through life’s adventures and tumults. But with so many competing demands for our time and attention, in an era of ever-increasing challenges and complexity, of many opinions and voices, the one voice that becomes harder to really hear is our own.
Thus, to hear our selves, to really hear our deepest inner self, is the most potent resource and the greatest gift available to us.
Our self takes its initial shape from the milieus which form us: family, culture, religion, education, workplace. If we’re fortunate, these early worldviews serve us well initially. But our self is not a static unchanging element. Rather, like every other part of creation, our self is bound to be an evolutionary phenomenon. Just as psychological development involves an evolution of understanding, likewise the worldviews of childhood and young adulthood must undergo many transformations.
It becomes vital to distinguish between the self as defined by family, culture, religion, workplace, and market forces, from the self who is organically and authentically coming to birth. Hearing our self, really hearing our evolving inner selves, requires patient attention, absolute trust and confidentiality, and deep and attentive listening.
SPIRITUS Consulting offers the safe and confidential listening-space to empower individuals to really hear their own evolving inner voice, and thus to discern their own authentic answers and durable solutions.
SPIRITED Conversation honours each individual's ground: to be guided by what is authentic to each person; to listen for what is emerging in the individual's unfolding life circumstances.
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Soul Work
'One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times.' Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Known also as Spiritual Direction, Befriending, and Companioning, this work attunes a person to the stirrings of the spirit of life - variously understood as God, Sacred Mystery, the Holy, the Ultimate, Ground of All Being, Life Source.
It is the ancient human journey of the soul, a loving attention to true essence, acknowledging that human lives have their deepest grounding through transcending the ego-self.
Soul work is a very personal commitment to the awakening, discovery, and transformation that takes place when there is an intentional, respectful, nurturing and loving attention given to the presence and movement of the spirit of life as it manifests in the everyday experience of each person's unique life journey.
Soul work is a conversation between a person's own foundational spiritual tradition and the unfolding experience of personal, professional, and communal lives, informed by spiritual tradition and all the discoveries of the sciences and humanities.
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Contemplative Leadership
Leaders live with relentless pressures, to deliver productivity, efficiency, profit, sustainability, inclusion, staff wellbeing, and ESG responsibility for the organisations they lead.
Contemplative Leadership is the capacity to balance this outer domain focussed on outcomes, productivity and performance, with the inner domain of being, identity and presence.
Central to this adventure is the realisation that healthy and lasting outer achievement requires the inner transformation of those who seek to make change.
Inner transformation is the courageous journey of self-knowledge and integration; it is being grounded in something more expansive than outer actions and roles.
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Be the Transformation
‘Be the change you wish to see in the world.’
We live in dramatic, fast-changing times. In every domain of life we face shifts of such scale and pace as never before.Every organisation, and every person, faces immense and accelerating pressure to evolve, to transform. Transformation is the essential dynamic of life: of business, community, and nation. This means that those who lead, in every field of endeavour, are in the business of transformation.
But transformation is not merely the rearrangement of operating models and business practices. In every domain of life we can observe external changes - in nations, corporations, communities, and relationships - which fail to endure because they are merely superficial. Any change not arising from an inner, interior personal shift will falter, or create lasting damage. This is because the individuals who lead change have not themselves been transformed.
Lasting organisational transformation requires the leader’s personal transformation. Everything enduring and healthy exteriorly depends on what happens interiorly. As within, so without - the inner landscape always creates and shapes the outer. And this is the reason that when change in organisations, or relationships, is grounded in the personal transformation of its change agents, such changes are both healthy and enduring.
The invitation to anyone who desires to reform any structure - regardless of scale or complexity - is to undergo their own personal evolution. Be the transformation you wish to see in the world.
This takes great courage. We must begin with honest self-reflection. We must accept our own personal limitations, our incompleteness, and the invitation to deeper consciousness. We must be willing to face the limitations of the ego, and to be open to what is much greater than our small selves. We must accept that everything that happens outside our self is a mirror image of what is actually within us. This requires great humility.
To be the transformation requires of change-leaders congruence between their plans and strategies and their personal spiritual evolution.
Being the transformation oneself is a practice, a discipline, an undertaking, a conversation, and a commitment. It is a spiritual undertaking. To be the transformation we desire is to undergo the journey of our own spiritual transformation.
Spiritual transformation is not an alternative to conventional leadership and management skills and tools. Rather, it’s the basis for the greatest possible enhancement of those very same skills and tools.
David Moore 2023
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What is Spirituality?
Spirituality is a universal natural human foundation, that aspect of humanity by which individuals seek and express meaning and purpose, and the way they experience their connectedness to the moment, to self, to others, to nature, and to what is ultimate.
People experience spirituality in many forms: belief, religious traditions, sacred writings, scientific enquiry, stories of origins, rituals, meditation practices, the natural world, art, music, creativity, love, community, work, self-reflection, intellectual enquiry, dreams and other numinous encounters, and so on.
Spirituality is the foundational aspect of being human, the source of all human thought, action and relating, and the deepest origin for resilience, hope and freedom.
Spirituality is the practice of growing towards our true selves; becoming fully human.
'What will you do with this one wild and precious life?'
Mary Oliver